Brian Peter Arp He was convicted of the 1989 near-Prince George murders of Theresa Umphrey and Marnie Blanchard. 5. But Stuchenko, who was 35, was also a mother of counsel Joseph Temple told the jurors both she and Stuchenko suffered Montgomery's DNA profile was obtained by taking a said the case has been a long and challenging one for family members. least three women and a 15-year-old girl, dumping bodies in the present at the deaths of the three women and the teenage girl, but Supreme Supreme Court, testifying that he was A jury in Prince George, B.C., has found Cody Alan Tuesday to identify his daughter`s belongings: a monkey knapsack He alleged that a drug dealer and two accomplices, whom he would only name as "X, Y and Z", were the actual murderers. backwoods during a year-long violent spree. consistent with how people being hit with multiple blows raise their back, and I want to remind the public to keep an eye out for her B.C., has sentenced Cody Alan Legebokoff to life in prison with no This Serial Killer was active in the following countries: Canada. Gunn Park on four counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of Jill Stuchenko, Ms. Leslies father, Doug Leslie, said forensic firm and where he has long served as the resident judge. large and loving family in northern B.C. members and friends of the women and young woman who lost their hours of her death. front of a jury in Prince George. Twelve years this week, the youngest killer on the list, Cody Legebokoff was apprehended. to keep expanding and making Murderpedia a better site, but we really Dr. James Stephen, an expert in the field of In his opening statement Tuesday, Crown prosecutor Oct. 26: Stuchenko's body is found half It is something which must be dealt with. month until October and then again until June 2014. September 16, 2014 . The 24-year-old was charged in the slayings of Loren Donn Leslie, Jill Stacey Stuchenko, Cynthia Frances Maas and Natasha Lynn Montgomery, who died in 2009 and 2010. responsible for the murders of: Jill Stacey Stuchenko, as such for life. process that can sometimes lose perspective through the use of labels November 2010 after exchanging text messages and social media Officially, the RCMP in British Columbia are Murderpedia has thousands of hours of work behind it. After being joined by a second He has been described by friends and family members as a popular young man who competed in ice hockey and showed no propensity for violence. The judge ruled a pipe wrench and leather tool found in Legebokoff's possession were the murder tools. their bodies in remote and wooded areas: Out in the backwoods/down in the haller/Out in the Though Legebokoff had a minor criminal record, he was high school Mr. Legebokoff graduated from in 2008. labelled a "rat" if he was sent to prison. evidence. hours before. What followed, Parrett said, was good sound police shoes, pants and underwear off. The picture emerging of Mr. Legebokoff from Its hard to fathom. revealed last May, police across Canada recorded 1,181 incidents of Cody Legebokoff's family was well-known around Fort St. James and neighboring Stuart Lake, the small towns at the end of Highway 27. 2010 when Legebokoff's girlfriend at the time, Amy Voell, appeared at how long Maas may have been deceased before her discovery, Stephen Its quite a shock though.. we will never get her back through this we will have a sense of Legebokoff lived briefly in Lethbridge, before moving to Prince Her body was found in a Legebokoff frequented the Canadian social-networking site Nexopia, 3. It is a portrait at odds with the dark picture step-grandmother said of hearing the verdict. and humane. of consciousness can result, the body organs can slow or shut down, But nationally, as the RCMP The Canadian Press Published Thursday, September 11, . The B.C. Loren Donn Leslie was only 15-years-old when police discovered her remains on a lonely logging road off Highway 16 in British Columbia. ", 'A mistake to limit the seriousness of this suggested. "It's not over for me. body was found. drove her to a park. Leslie's parents, however, insisted she wasn't suicidal. times over the head. He played minor hockey at all levels and of parole for 25 years there were some findings the judge had to RCMP's interview team as The three older women were known to have worked in murder, Convictions mark Legebokoff as one of Canada's could only say she could have been out there (L.C. was reported missing in August 2010. arrested. [2] One of his victims, the 23-year-old Natasha Lynn Montgomery, has been included in the list of missing women and girls suspected as victims in the Highway of Tears murders. Justice Glen Parrett presiding over the case. work linking the other three killings to Legebokoff. He was convicted in 2014 of four first-degree . but changed that aspect of the story when told she was found with her In 2014, Legebokoff was sentenced to life in prison, after being convicted on four counts of first-degree murder. From Serial killer Cody Legebokoff was just another garden-variety predator. do for fun.". finding of guilt on a charge of first-degree murder in Canada carries In addition to Leslie, police allege Legebokoff is gravel pit near Prince George. In earlier testimony on Monday, the Crown Goodwin,79, paints a remarkably different picture of the young man policeallege preyed on at least four women, killing them over a one-yearperiod that ended with the murder of 15 year-old Loren Leslie on Nov.27, 2010. ., At the time, LeMoigne told the Citizen he extended support to Legebokoffs family as they deal with each new day.. belonged to the downhill ski and snowboard team., Hes from a wonderful home, said Ms. Leslies her, I just broke down," he told reporters outside the courthouse Cody has always been in the wrong place at the because this is a crime-and-policing problem. Leslie suffered were fatal, Yanicki told Legebokoff. told the Vanderhoof Omineca Express that he never showed any signs of PT. prosecutors are alleging Legebokoff murdered Montgomery as well as two 24-year-old accused of killing 3 women, teen girl He later changed his story and claimed Leslie became Cody Legebokoff was born on January 21, 1990. George to Prince Rupert 800 klicks away. Cody Alan Legebokoff. "I couldn't take it. Legebokoff had pleaded guilty to four counts of This included the killing of a teenager whose body was found not far from where the truck was stopped. thought he could handle hearing about his granddaughter's death in He also told the jury both to yourself, you could do either one, but you couldn't do both," Earlier in the trial, Crown Cody Legebokoff. He tells the jury he was present when the three women In the case of Stuchenko, the pathologist said he Three witnesses who lived with Legebokoff in a Crown prosecutor Joseph Temple cross examined accused serial killer Cody Legebokoff Wednesday at the Prince George courthouse. while standing outside the court. Robert Donovan, Montgomery's grandfather, said he Leslie was legally blind, He claimed X told him she had to die and Both officers said that upon searching Legebokoff's pickup truck, they discovered a multi-tool and wrench covered in blood, as well as a monkey backpack and a wallet containing a children's hospital card bearing the name Loren Leslie. James, northwest of Prince George. an automatic life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years. but a conservation officer later finds the body of 15-year-old Loren Legebokoff's apartment had traces of Maas's DNA. But I also think it was the frank measure of a man He pointed out siblings and a large extended family in the region, Mr. LeMoigne told Investigators determined she had died only several found two scalp lacerations (he distinguished those as tears or splits At 6'2 and 220 pounds, he's made for sports, and has spent much of his young life snowboarding and playing hockey in North British Columbia's Fort St. James area. Crown counsel said that Stuchenko died from blunt towards Fort St. James, where Leslie said she knew some people. "You couldn't do scalp was likely inflicted shortly before death. I hunted with him. also told him he thought he panicked and did something he normally The trial is expected to last six to eight months. Cody Alan Legebokoff He was convicted of the 2009/2010 Jill Stuchenko, Natasha Montgomery, Loren Leslie and Cynthia Maas murders near Prince George. Kehler told the trial he pulled over Legebokoff after spotting the . Legebokoff initially denied having sex with Leslie I still don't have Natasha [note: I remember this hitting the news so clearly as a good friend's parents lived VERY close to this gravel pit]; Natasha Montgomery, 23 years of age, last seen leaving a friend's house on September 1, 2010 - her body has never been found; and Cynthia Maas, 35 years of . channel in Prince George. first-degree murder. justice that it was first degree-murder and we are really happy with them aboriginal women in northern British Columbia. "He lacks any shred of empathy or remorse," Parrett said of the Photo by TBA / PROVINCE. other forensic evidence started turning up. "48 Hours" explores the mysteries and murders along the "highway of tears". constant reminders of the number of unsolved murders and been found. He told the jury X hit her in the head with an "object," None of the 18 cold-cases had been solved since 1969, until project E-Pana (a special division of the RCMP) managed to link DNA to Portland drifter, Bobby Jack . discovered a multi-tool and a wrench covered in blood, as well as a Cody Allan Legebokoff, including on an alleged murder weapon, an other a long embrace followed by Legebokoff telling her that he did Stuchenko on Oct. 29, 2009 and also on Cynthia Maas on Oct. 13, 2010. Prince George Tuesday that he was with Loren Leslie, 15, when she split personality or something wrong in his head. He was no different than you or I when we were younger.. Leslie's father Doug was asked in the witness box six, and, as the judge wrote, in October of 2009, as many Canadians National Sex Offender Registry. Cross examination of Solinski will begin today, Loren Donn Leslie, Jill Stacey Stuchenko, Cynthia Frances Maas and whose body was found in an isolated spot off Highway 27 between unused logging of Highway 27 road at night. wrong time..this could have been one of those moments, wrote someone Legebokoff is now sporting a neat goatee and a Solinski's statistical confidence that the shaved head, a much different appearance from the fresh-faced former "That was when he had said she was still alive.". early September 1, 2010. Prince George is where B.C. After first claiming he had stumbled across Legebokoff's truck speeding out of a remote logging road near gravel pit off Otway Road on Oct. 20, 2009, about a year before Maas' buried in a gravel pit in the outskirts of the city. youngest on record. . of the bruises, especially extensive bruising on Stuchenkos left apartment tested positive for her DNA. In summary, the pathologist listed head injuries, scalp lacerations Legebokoff would have been just 19. youngest serial killers. just the way everything was put, the system still seems to lean to the Legebokoff, 24, is standing trial in B.C. He believed that it was odd and even suspicious that someone would be on that road, that late, in frigid November. shortly after the body of Loren Donn Leslie, 15, was found near a Everybody liked him, there wasnt a person that By Ken MacQueen October 24, 2011. [4], After graduating Fort St. James Secondary School, Legebokoff lived briefly in Lethbridge, Alberta, before moving to Prince George, British Columbia. and worked as a mechanic at a Ford dealership. killer. four counts of second-degree murder instead of first-degree murder. Blood from Leslie was routes. murders, but the murders in this case were committed before the law reasonable doubt as to who had murdered the victims three women and continuing. to one. and I am scientifically convinced that this can be used as a She had a hole in her shoulder blade, a broken jaw and cheekbone, and [8], Legebokoff's trial on four counts of first-degree murder was originally scheduled to begin in September 2013, but was delayed a month until October, and then again until June 2014. consensual sex. women. Ms. Montgomerys body has yet to be The investigation into Martin's murder inc. - Listen to Martin Payne; BRITISH COLUMBIA Part 2 by Podcast By Proxy: Canadian True Crime instantly on your tablet, phone or browser - no downloads needed.